The enormous and vast number of apps and video games contained in the Google Play Store make it the largest collection of this type of multimedia content on the planet. The most curious thing about this store is that, while Google has made its name thanks to its search engine, it can become quite tedious to search for "something" in the Google Play Store.
For this reason, below, you will find five tricks to get the most out of it to the Google Play Store, and so you can find new ways to go to that app you are looking for or only those of a developer that you are very fond of and their video games are usually your favorites.
Find all the apps of a developer
If you would like to be aware of all the apps published by a developer or video game studio, with this trick you can save a good time in that search. Something as simple as typing the text that you will find below in the search bar of the Play Store to find all the apps of that developer:
- pub: developer name
As simple as that by replace "developer name" by Crescent Moon Games or Supercell. Mention that you have to put the capital letter or, what is the same, copy the name as it appears, since the search results will not appear.
Search for an app by its exact name
When we have millions of apps in the store, as we look for an app that has applications with a similar name, it will appear before us dozens of them to almost go crazy trying to find that new app.
But this can be fixed by use quotes with search What do you want to do? In this way, the results will only show the exact term for the chosen search and the apps with the same name are also prioritized. Something like Google search.
Explore Top Apps Without Video Games
Google Play Store does not split video game apps when searching for download or payment tops. It can be quite irritating to search for new apps to find us that the top ranks are packed with new games that are coming out to Android.
Anyway, we have a great option for exclude video games when accessing the list from this same link from your Android phone or Tablet.
Another great option is install this app called Apps - Play Store Link, which is responsible for automatically opening the top downloads without having to access a link like the one we provided above.
Receive the latest updates for the Google Play Store app itself
If you are used to having a custom ROM, perhaps this trick will come in handy for have the latest version of Google Play Store installed on your mobile device. You can always access websites like apkmirror, but from the store's own settings we have a great option.
- Go to "Settings" from the side navigation panel of the Play Store
- Scroll down to the last option «Build version»
- Now click once on it and a message will appear: «A new version of the Google Play Store will be downloaded and installed»
Turn off automatic updates for an app
If you have activated the automatic updates of the apps in the Google Play Store, you can forget about having to install them manually so that, under the Wi-Fi connection, you have the latest versions.
But it may happen that there is an app that you don't want it to update in either case automatically to have control of a new version. To access the manual download and forget about the automatic download for this app, these are the steps:
- We open the page of the app that we want not to update automatically
- Click on the icon with three vertical dots in the upper right part
- We deactivate the option «Update automatically»
Now, this app can only be updated when you access manual updates from the app.
